In 2017 the Rodale Institute talked about the use of crimper rollers in organic no-till. They said: “In conventional systems, farmers can practice no-till by using chemical herbicides to kill cover crops before the next planting. Organic no-till, on the other hand, uses no synthetic inputs. Instead, small-scale organic no-till farmers use hand tools, like …
We first saw this at Agritechnica 2019 when we met the team from Continental to understand their approach to providing agricultural robots to farmers Continental believes the future may well rest with small driverless robots and the company has developed an advanced and flexible system. This approach as led to Contandino, a robot platform that …
Continental’s Agricultural Robot – Contandino Read More »
Written by Dr Nicola Cannon, Associate Professor of Agriculture Introduction Herbicide resistance has become a major challenge to UK arable production and is forcing farms to rethink cropping choices and in some cases is even leading to fallowing instead of cropping to try and regain control of challenging weeds. The problem of herbicide resistance has …
Can Mechanical Weeding Offer Reliable Weed Control Solutions? Read More »
The likely ban on glyphosate and other chemicals has steered this German manufacturer to look at some methods used by organic growers – and then improve on them At this year’s Agritechnica Michael Horsch, farmer and founder of the well-known German farm machinery company, introduced the concept of a dual or hybrid approach to crop …
Horsch Leads With New Mechanical Weeding Solutions Read More »
Agritechnica, as always, is the place to see everything that farming has to offer from around the world. You come across stands way bigger than anything you would see other shows and yet you have never even heard of the brand as they don’t sell in the UK or Europe yet as they “haven’t seen …
All that glitters is not gold. Harry Henderson, AHDB Technical Knowledge Exchange Managerdiscusses the latest thinking in machinery costings. With all the debates held at Monitor Farm meetings, which rumbled on about machinery costs a couple of spin-off debates came to fruition. A recent visit to Scotland found me standing in front of farmers talking …
In 2017, AGCO Group bought the American company Precision Planting, a company that specialises in the agronomicaspects of plant growth, in particular the establishment of crops. The product range includes technologies for optimising maize, sunflower, and sugar beet planting. Precision Planting solutions presented their drills for the first time in Europe at the Fendt Field …
By James Warne of Soil First Farming Drilling is the only operation you have to really influence the crop you harvest later, if the establishment is poor you areconstantly playing a game of catch-up. Get it right and suddenly the husbandry of the crop becomes ever so much easier. I appreciate that sounds obvious and …
By Richard Harding – Agronomist Extraordinaire Simon Chiles has been advocating the benefits of the John Deere 750A drill for over 18 years. While carrying out his contracting business he has drilled almost every conceivable crop and as a contractor he has also had the benefit of drilling most soil types, from light chalky soils …
The AHDB Monitor Farm network have run a Labour & Machinery review on over 20 farms stretching the length and breadth of the UK, here AHDB’s Harry Henderson shines a light on the findings. Across the AHDB Monitor Farm network, with the help of Strutt & Parker we have run a Labour & Machinery review …
